Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -27 +8 -15
Permanent jobs citing Python 182 359 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.56% 10.33% 8.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.22% 30.12% 23.14%
Number of salaries quoted 101 183 190
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,700 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.07% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £111,500 £87,625
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 583 1,192 1,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.62% 34.31% 36.94%
Number of salaries quoted 423 700 936
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,625 £47,500 £46,038
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.53% -8.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,623 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.63% +9.09% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -27 86 £46,760 -33.20% 175
Buckinghamshire -15 50 £60,000 +1.69% 17
Oxfordshire -8 46 £67,500 +1.07% 71
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.55%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.55%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.20%) MadCap Flare
2 4 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (34.62%) Azure
2 57 (31.32%) Power Platform
3 47 (25.82%) AWS
4 32 (17.58%) GCP
5 19 (10.44%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (8.79%) Serverless
7 15 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (8.24%) Azure AI
8 14 (7.69%) GitHub
9 13 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (3.85%) dbt
12 7 (3.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (3.30%) SaaS
13 6 (3.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 6 (3.30%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.75%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.30%) DNS
1 6 (3.30%) Firewall
1 6 (3.30%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.65%) Internet
2 3 (1.65%) MQTT
2 3 (1.65%) Wireless
3 2 (1.10%) 5G
4 1 (0.55%) 4G
4 1 (0.55%) DHCP
4 1 (0.55%) HTTP
4 1 (0.55%) Intranet
4 1 (0.55%) MIMO
4 1 (0.55%) Modbus
4 1 (0.55%) NGN
4 1 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.55%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (25.82%) Power BI
2 27 (14.84%) Tableau
3 24 (13.19%) BigQuery
4 21 (11.54%) Relational Database
5 15 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (6.59%) RDBMS
8 10 (5.49%) Metadata
9 6 (3.30%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.75%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.65%) Data Hub
11 3 (1.65%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.65%) Looker
11 3 (1.65%) MySQL
12 2 (1.10%) Airbyte
12 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (1.10%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (12.64%) Git
2 20 (10.99%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.59%) JMeter
3 12 (6.59%) JUnit
3 12 (6.59%) Mockito
4 7 (3.85%) MLflow
5 5 (2.75%) GitLab
5 5 (2.75%) Selenium
6 4 (2.20%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.20%) JIRA
6 4 (2.20%) Postman
6 4 (2.20%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.10%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.10%) Metasploit
7 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.55%) Appium
8 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.55%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.55%) LabVIEW
General
1 67 (36.81%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (16.48%) Law
4 26 (14.29%) Finance
5 23 (12.64%) Marketing
6 18 (9.89%) Public Sector
7 14 (7.69%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.75%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.65%) Retail
12 2 (1.10%) Automotive
12 2 (1.10%) Aviation
12 2 (1.10%) Banking
12 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.55%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (19.78%) Analyst
2 35 (19.23%) Developer
3 27 (14.84%) Senior
4 24 (13.19%) Architect
5 22 (12.09%) Data Analyst
6 20 (10.99%) Cloud Architect
6 20 (10.99%) GCP Architect
6 20 (10.99%) Platform Architect
7 16 (8.79%) Junior
8 15 (8.24%) Junior Analyst
8 15 (8.24%) Junior Data Analyst
9 14 (7.69%) Java Developer
9 14 (7.69%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (6.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 12 (6.59%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 9 (4.95%) Data Engineer
12 9 (4.95%) Lead
13 8 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 6 (3.30%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.84%) REST
2 15 (8.24%) SOAP
3 14 (7.69%) HTML
3 14 (7.69%) Spring
3 14 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 13 (7.14%) JSON
4 13 (7.14%) Web Services
4 13 (7.14%) XML
5 12 (6.59%) .NET
5 12 (6.59%) ActiveMQ
5 12 (6.59%) Apache Camel
5 12 (6.59%) Hibernate
5 12 (6.59%) jQuery
5 12 (6.59%) WireMock
6 11 (6.04%) Middleware
7 7 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
7 7 (3.85%) Visualforce
8 6 (3.30%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.75%) PyTorch
10 4 (2.20%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.74%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.59%) Life Science
4 10 (5.49%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.30%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.20%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.65%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.65%) Animation
8 3 (1.65%) Hackathon
8 3 (1.65%) Industry 4.0
8 3 (1.65%) LIMS
8 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 3 (1.65%) SCADA
9 1 (0.55%) FPGA
9 1 (0.55%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.55%) Replication
9 1 (0.55%) Robotics
9 1 (0.55%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.19%) Linux
2 10 (5.49%) Unix
3 7 (3.85%) Windows
4 2 (1.10%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.55%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.32%) CI/CD
2 54 (29.67%) Analytics
3 52 (28.57%) Agile
4 48 (26.37%) Business Intelligence
5 40 (21.98%) AI
6 39 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (18.68%) Data Science
9 33 (18.13%) Roadmaps
10 32 (17.58%) DevOps
10 32 (17.58%) Mentoring
11 30 (16.48%) ETL
12 28 (15.38%) Strategic Roadmap
13 27 (14.84%) Computer Science
14 26 (14.29%) Decision-Making
14 26 (14.29%) Machine Learning
14 26 (14.29%) Software Engineering
15 25 (13.74%) Cost Optimisation
15 25 (13.74%) Data Modelling
16 24 (13.19%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 72 (39.56%) SQL
2 50 (27.47%) Java
3 38 (20.88%) JavaScript
4 26 (14.29%) Go
5 17 (9.34%) C++
6 15 (8.24%) C#
6 15 (8.24%) Shell Script
7 13 (7.14%) Bash
8 9 (4.95%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.85%) Apex Code
9 7 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (3.30%) C
11 5 (2.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (2.75%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.20%) Fortran
12 4 (2.20%) PHP
12 4 (2.20%) R
12 4 (2.20%) VBA
13 3 (1.65%) MATLAB
14 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (22.53%) Degree
2 26 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.44%) Azure Certification
3 19 (10.44%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.49%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.85%) PhD
6 4 (2.20%) ACCA
6 4 (2.20%) CIMA
7 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.10%) OSCP
9 1 (0.55%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.55%) GPEN
9 1 (0.55%) MCSE
9 1 (0.55%) RHCE
9 1 (0.55%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.34%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.04%) QA
3 4 (2.20%) GDPR
4 3 (1.65%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 3 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.65%) ECSS
4 3 (1.65%) GxP
5 2 (1.10%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 28 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) vCloud
2 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.14%) Kibana
3 12 (6.59%) Terraform
4 9 (4.95%) Ansible
5 4 (2.20%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.65%) Argo
7 2 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.10%) Nmap
7 2 (1.10%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.55%) Control-M
8 1 (0.55%) Grafana
8 1 (0.55%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.55%) SCCM
8 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (15.38%) Google
2 25 (13.74%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 12 (6.59%) Splunk
5 10 (5.49%) Databricks
6 9 (4.95%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.85%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.75%) SAP
9 4 (2.20%) VMware
10 3 (1.65%) Agilent
10 3 (1.65%) Allen-Bradley
10 3 (1.65%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.65%) Siemens
10 3 (1.65%) Talend
11 2 (1.10%) Alteryx
11 2 (1.10%) Cognos
11 2 (1.10%) HubSpot
11 2 (1.10%) IBM
11 2 (1.10%) Informatica
11 2 (1.10%) Zoho